1.3+Definitions,+Acronyms,+and+Abbreviations

TSI: Try 'n Save Incorporated POS: Point-of-sale -- In an establishment that sells goods or services, the location at which payment for the goods is made.

ERP: Enterprise resource planning -- An enterprise-wide information system designed to coordinate all the resources, information, and activities needed to complete business processes such as order fulfillment or billing. SO: Store order -- A request from a store to the regional warehouse to replenish the store's inventory for a given product.

RO: Resupply order -- A request from a regional warehouse to the supplier to replenish the regional warehouse's inventory for a given product.

TO: Transfer order -- A request for a given product from a regional warehouse that is short on supply to peer regional warehouse that has more than a 90-day supply on hand.

TeRP Transaction: An SO, RO, TO, email confirmation, or other automated query/update

CCM: Capability Maturity Model -- A structured collection of elements that describe certain aspects of development in an organization, and aids in the definition and understanding of an organization's processes. Process examples include:

Initial (chaotic, ad hoc, heroic) the starting point for use of a new process.

Repeatable (project management, process discipline) the process is used repeatedly.

Defined (institutionalized) the process is defined/confirmed as a standard business process.

Managed (quantified) process management and measurement takes place.

Optimizing (process improvement) process management includes deliberate process optimization/improvement.

COTS: Commercial-off-the-shelf -- Application software created and marketed by software vendors, generally suitable for a variety of users in the same industry or with the same application.

TeRP: Codename for the Try 'n Save Enterprise Resource Planning Project.

GGI - Gamma Group Incorporated